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I believe all cities people love to visit were built organically by huge numbers if individual actors doing what they thought best with their part of it.

Or are there any preplanned great cities I'm not aware of?

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Paris could be considered planned, at least a large part of it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_...

Barcelona gets a lot of love despite most of it being a very regular grid of city blocks.

Eixample is alright, and supposedly a decent place to live, but the main touristy part of Barcelona is the old town, Barri Gòtic, which is a typical chaotic maze of streets. Eixample receives a lot of visitors too, of course, but not so much, I think, because it's very charming in itself, but because it makes up a large part of the inner city and thus contains a lot of tourist attractions (including Sagrada Familia and other buildings by Gaudí) and shopping streets.

Also, once you go beyond Eixample (except to the east) the city's not a regular grid anymore. In the end, Eixample and other, newer neighbourhoods built on a grid probably represent a (substantial, of course) minority of the city.

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